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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan raised new concerns about the risk of another nuclear reactor disaster. The explosion of the FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT gives our citizens cause to re-examine the risk assumed by the public. At this writing, the full extent of the damage to the plant, the community, and the environment is unknown - it will take years.

At the same time concerns over the high risks associated with extracting natural gas and as noted in a Financial Times article is "energy that comes from the same place as our drinking water. Extracting it had better be safe. The political fault lines over hydraulic fracturing (hence the term fracking) have been easy to predict for anyone paying attention to the controversies over climate change and genetically modified organisms. France’s national assembly voted to ban fracking while in the US its been full steam ahead in 32 states. These are high risk alternative energy sources.

Curated by mokiethecat

What is the Fracking Process by Chesapeak Energy

Instructional, how it is done...After being made available on YouTube it was re-classified as "private" by the company.

We are leaving a link to it on EarthSayers in the event the company changes its mind and makes it available once again.

In order to maximize the production potential for a natural gas well, the shale formation must be hydraulically fractured. This video outlines and demonstrates the hydraulic fracturing process in Chesapeake Energy natural gas operations. For more information on fracking, visit www.hydraulicfracturing.com.

Here is a news/personal story about spills from a Chesapeak Energy drilling site and contamination of private and public natural resources.

Here is our January 1, 2013 article on Fracking in our blog, Sustainability Adovate.

My Water's On Fire Tonight
Community Organizing at Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Conference
No Fracking in Colorado by Misha Luzov
Deep Drilling Fracking, Deep Pockets by Common Cause
Why is Coal So Angry?
Last U.S. Nuclear Test by Konstantin Kakaes
300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds
Trying to Create Clean Coal Technologies by Nicholas K. Akins of AEP
Global Warming and Nuclear Energy by Amory Lovins
Ending Nuclear Weapons by Alice Slater (2019)
Chinese CoExist with Coal
GasLand by Josh Fox
Making A Documentary About Haynesville by Gregory Kallenberg
Nuclear Power Plants and Global Warming by Helen Caldicott
Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Costs Up Another $4.5B by Tom Carpenter
From Atomic Bombings to Fukushima, Japan Still Pursues a Nuclear Future
Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn's Arctic Oil Rig
The Perils of Fracking by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Tar Sands Resistance March
Nuclear: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive by Kevin Kamps
The Last Mountain
Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, by Professor Burleson
Natural Gas Wells in Pennsylvania: an infographic
Portland, Oregon: Train Tankers and Tar Sands Oil
Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples opposed to oil development
The Sinkhole That's Swallowing Louisiana by Ben Depp
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons (trailer)
Contamination of Ecuador's Rainforest: The Chevron Tapes
What is the Fracking Process by Chesapeak Energy
Frac Biocides DeepLife by Sandra Steingraber
Fukushima's Ongoing Impact by Helen Caldicott
Haynesville Movie Trailer: Largest Natural Gas Field in the U.S.
The History of Fracking by Russell Gold
Promised Land (movie trailer) with Matt Damon
Last of Energy Resources are in the Territories of Indigenous Peoples by Erick Gonzalez
A Danger on the Rails from the The New York Times
Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Spill
Energy: The Next 10 Years Really Matter by Alexander Van de Putte
TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? Brand and Jacobson
Want the truth about Australia's coal industry?
Japanese Director A. Funahashi talks about his film Nuclear Nation
How The Exxon Valdez Disaster Still Affects Victims Today
Transporting Coal through the Pacific NorthWest

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